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Try to sit in the middle of the carriage. I don't get motion sickness on trains, but I find doing that makes a meaningful difference to how comfortable it is to type on a laptop on…

In terms of a concrete example of what we actually use it for, http://www.nature.com/srep/ is using Shunter, as is http://www.nature.com/search?journal=srep&q=physics&subject= . Be…

Develop a sense of curiosity, get into the habit of asking yourself why things are they way they are, even if you don't need to know the answer. Read widely about technology and fo…

Yes, I've experienced this exact problem in the past.

From the article: "To be clear, Malik isn’t talking about Kickstarter where funders make a donation that acts like a pre-order. He’s talking about the public buying stock in privat…

I think the total energy available at ground level is something closer to 250W/m^2.

It's even called stereolithography :-)

... one other thing though. With a bit of practice you can remove the need to develop on feature branches; break things down into really small chunks and get into the habit of maki…

Don't worry about it then - there are more important things to spend your time doing.

This doesn't seem that bad to me, what problems is it causing? The only changes I'd make would be to wrap it up in a script so you have one-click deploys, and possibly implement th…

That should never be necessary; if you invest in the appropriate automation you can get your regular deployment process down to a few minutes and then even emergency fixes can go t…

So, obvious question... why do you not have tests in this set up?

This is true, but you should probably still put more emphasis on avoiding them than optimising your process for fixing them.

YouTrack ( http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/index.jsp ) is my favourite out of everything I've ever seriously used. Physical cards stuck to the wall also works well for small, co-…

Okay, cool - so it seems like you do actually have quite a specific piece of technology missing, but it also seems to me that this is an architecture / technical design problem rat…

So what is your background? It seems like you have experience doing something technical, even if it isn't professional software engineering. Do you feel you could code up a workabl…

Can you say more about how your product is medium computational intensity? i.e. what makes it more complex than your average databased backed web app? Why do you feel that code qua…

> 1 - what do you think about users paying in advance? I guess it depends on your attitude to risk and the sort of service you think people will pay for. If you don't you presumabl…

Exact duplicate rows? If you have access to standard Unix tools, try this on a command line: cat input_file.csv | sort | uniq > output_file.csv

Can you be more specific about how large 'large' is? Edit: without knowing the specifics, you might like to look at Elasticsearch ( http://www.elasticsearch.org/ ). That'll give yo…

You can be pretty sure that it is. You should definitely do competitor research, but also don't reject ideas just because someone's already doing something similar. Execution is mu…

In the case of phones maybe it's the fact that you've just been holding it against your body for a few minutes.

This may be the difference between being a contractor and being after a permanent position. For the latter, with the exception of very senior roles, you don't often hear people tal…

It's certainly not difficult to apply directly to the big tech players - you can find these pretty easily with ' uk careers' Google searches: http://www.google.co.uk/about/jobs/loc…

So, at least we've got from 'I'm too gifted to learn from anyone' to 'I'm in a difficult position without access to peers to learn from', which sounds more plausible and is probabl…